Check out my new article in the Pacific Sun on Coast Miwok death ceremonies: When a person died in a Coast Miwok village, everything went quiet. People spoke in whispers and moved gently, hushing their children and cringing at every…
My book review on I Heart My In-Laws by Dina Koutas Poch is up on PopMatters. When I read I Heart My In-Laws by Dina Koutas Poch, I was a little worried that my mother-in-law would see the book lying…
Check it out: This week’s issue of the Bohemian has my restaurant review of Le Bistro in Petaluma. Le Bistro By Joy Lanzendorfer I had heard a lot about Le Bistro in Petaluma. After all, the restaurant, sitting unobtrusively on…
Last month, I spent time talking to video game developers in Marin County. I got to go to their offices, ask them about their games, and think about having fun a lot. It was, well… fun. The resulting article is…
My new article in the North Bay Bohemian looks into how California is spending the money we give them for schools. Maybe the problem isn’t so much the amount of money in the system as how the money is being…
Check out my cover story in the Pacific Sun about Marin County poets. I really liked doing this one. Not only did I get to think about poetry for a month, I got to interview respected poets like Jane Hirshfield,…
My cover story on The Clock of the Long Now is running in this week’s Pacific Sun. Scientists are creating a clock that will be installed in a mountain in Nevada. There, it will quietly tick away the days, years,…
Last June, I went to the 2006 Rock, Paper, Scissors Championship at Roshambo Winery in Healdsburg. You can read my write-up of the event in the wonderful new issue of Imbibe Magazine. They also published some pictures I took of…
It may be too late to mention this, but I have two articles out this week that you can probably still pick up. One is a restaurant review in the North Bay Bohemian of Romeo’s Pizza in Petaluma. I gave…
I have a small article in this issue of Bust about Switch, an online show that is designed to teach girls how to combine tech and crafty stuff.
I am back. I will post pictures of our fabulous trip to Canada later this week. In the meantime, I forgot to mention I have a cover story in the most recent Pacific Sun. From 1910-1940, Chinese immigrants were held…
My article on Lyme disease, which ran in the North Bay Bohemian, was reprinted in Metro Silicon Valley. The article is getting quite a bit of positive feedback from Lyme disease sufferers. It’s always nice to know people like your…